MPACT Parent Training and Information http:www'ptimpact'com

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MPACTParent Training and Informationhttp//www.
ptimpact.com/

• What is MPACT?
• The Missouri Parents Act (MPACT) is a state-wide
• Parent Training and Information Center. As
  Missouris
• only PTI, MPACT provides services to parents of
• children with disabilities
• Newsletters concerning disability related issues
• Local, state, and federal resource information
• Training for parents, schools and other
  professionals
• Direct assistance to families
• Website with fact sheets, sample letters, and
  more
• Disability related bulletin board
• Located in Kansas City, we also have staff in 6
  different regions throughout the state and
  volunteer mentors
• .

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Current Transition Curricula

• Transition to Empowered Lifestyles (TEL)
• http//www.ptimpact.com/tel/about.htm
• Partnership between University of Missouri Kansas
  City Institute for Human Development (IHD),
  Missouris University Affiliated Program, and
  Missouri Parents Act (MPACT) to provide
  transition training and information to families
  across Missouri
• Five modules (each about 3hrs of training)
• Self-Determination
• Person-Centered Planning
• Quality Transition Planning
• Social Security, Work Incentives, and Medicaid
• Navigating Systems

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Benefits of the Curriculum

• Youth, parents and siblings learn basic
  self-advocacy skills and a general understanding
  of self-determination
• Self-advocates and families have an opportunity
  to think differently about how to perceive a
  disability by looking toward the future
• Team approach
• Materials are readily available for their
  reference
• Families gain insight into the adult system of
  disabilities supports

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Challenges of the Curriculum

• The modules are intended to be offered in a
  workshop format across a period of 5 weeks, 5
  sessions/ 3 hrs. each
• Families have difficulty making this commitment
  due to scheduling conflicts
• Content is academic-oriented and youth have
  difficulty focusing on it
• Team approach (parents, siblings, student,
  school)
• Need more opportunities to practice skills and
  have follow along
• Developed in 2001 and is now outdated

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What Are We Doing to Improve?

• Reorganize the format of the content to be more
  youth friendly
• Update the content of the modules based on the
  most recent research-based practices
• Reorganize the length and presentation of the
  curricula to provide more flexibility (some
  online support, some face-to-face, more
  opportunities for practice)
• Revise to supplement other training and
  collaboration activities in the STELLAR RSA grant
  project
• Tool for the Community Transition Teams (CTT)

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• For more information contact
• Karen Allan
• STELLAR Project Coordinator
• Kallan_at_ptimpact.com